Moses Mellor

Baildon had many characters which one could bring to mind, but one of the most well known was Moses Mellor, he was as one would say in a class of his own.

Moses was expert on the Yorkshire dialect and featured in many programmes on the radio, he was also a well known speaker on this subject and made several recordings, the Yorkshire dialect Society asked him to do some recordings for the purpose of their dialect library, no wonder he was so well known in Yorkshire.

Moses Mellor's great love was cricket, he was a staunch Baildon member, he was as familiar at Jenny Lane as the old wooden score box over which he presided, what could be more fitting than when the new brick built automatic score box was opened and dedicated to him, the tablet reads, erected by public subscription in appreciation of the life long services of Moses Mellor 1944 - 5.

Mr and Mrs Mellor were a very affectionate pair, but typical of Yorkshire people would do some leg pulling with each other, on one occasion - Moses had spent a very pleasent evening at the home of Mr Harry Foster, so enjoyable that it went on very late, Mr Foster said that he would run Moses home, which Moses took advantage of the offer.
Adept at turning aside Mrs Mellors pretended wrath with a good excuse Moses was unprepared this time, he thought his wife would be in bed, this was not so, he was met with "Well what is the excuse this time?" his reply was "Nay ah flaid ah sall hev ta mak one at owd uns dew this time," typical of Moses Mellor.

On another occasion some of the Baildon men who worked at A.V.R the aircraft factory at Yeadon had an argument as to how many worked there, one chap said Moses will know so when asked his laconic reply was "Abaht haif on em."